• shoesiworld.com
• wecarepets.com
• websniper.net
• cozybagz.com
• bookmums.com
• chillbay.com  (Sorry, I had to add this one. I LOL thinking - chill out ebay)
• skinnylad.com
• pureworship.org
• onlinekarate.net
• sky-walker.net
• tarpslinger.com
• lyricspark.com
• amps-inc.com
• deckportal.com
• lowbudgettv.com
• giveasunset.com
• findbamboo.com
• gearslap.com
• fstores.com
• fast-saver.com
• healthstruck.com
• golfsurvivor.com
• giantcanvas.com
• imageclocks.com
• iconsgallery.com
• helpwantads.com
• maindirtbike.com
• mythrow.com
• pooh-books.com
• posterdomain.com
• powerbowling.com
• praisesgifts.com

These are the best I found in the time I had to go through them. I hope some of you can find them useful!

I have been asked several times in the past where to check keyword density and that is what prompted this post. In truth, there are many places online which are only a search away, but I thought I would give you access to this free tool right here on the blog. All you have to do is type in the url you want to check in the box below and you will be shown the results. Very simple and accurate. Enjoy!

I cannot register and develop them all and so I'm going to start sharing some of the great domains that have recently been dropped (within the last seven days) and provide you with a discount link for registering. I will only be posting the .com domains as they are the most popular. The plan is to do this either every day or every few days and give you all the opportunity to go grab some awesome, keyword rich domains. Here is today's list:

1. girl-shoes.com   The keyword girl shoes gets around 528 searches a day
2. shoescitycn.com   63 Yahoo backlinks
3. batikbeauty.com   143 Yahoo backlinks
4. regainbeauty.com   Keyword rich
5. bead-beauty.com   43 Yahoo backlinks
6. power-wagon.com   Keyword power wagon gets 518 searches per day
7. powervortex.com   77 Yahoo backlinks
8. phonecritics.com
9. phoneataxi.com   Would be great to geo-target major cities with taxi phone numbers
10. spicemyphone.com  Good for phone covers and accessories, maybe even an app store
11. juicyiphone.com   206 Yahoo backlinks
12. ezbuyphone.com   112 Yahoo backlinks
13. epiphoneshop.com   Keyword rich for targeting music instruments, etc.
14. phone-jewels.com   Cover or accessory site, 25 Yahoo backlinks
15. chargephones.com
16. phone-car.com   Keyphrase gets 289 daily searches
17. tiny-phone.com  416 daily searches
18. evengolf.com   8 letter domain
19. pjgolf.com   6 letter domain
20. golfproelite.com
21. vitalfishing.com
22. punch-bag.com   279 searches, 26 Yahoo backlinks
23. bagelracks.com
24. patriotbags.com
25. huntingfor.com   519 daily searches

Domain Sale! $7.49 .com at GoDaddy

This is just a small sampling from a few searches I conducted tonight. If you would like, feel free to request certain keywords and I'll see what I can come up with for domains. I will post some more in a few days. Have fun!

I have an internet friend who decided to take his business in a new direction and started a new business venture. He went on to restructure one of his older sites into a blog to track his progress. He has also been consistent in posting his daily activities regarding his new venture. Anyway, someone questioned him as to why he was creating these mini-posts when they "don't add value" (in their eyes) to his site.

Don't add value? Are you kidding me? First off, let's define a blog. Sure, a blog can be used for any type of site, but it's main purpose when the concept came upon the scene was to be labeled a weblog. In more simple terms, a log of information which could include any of the following:

• A diary of daily activities
• Schematics you wish to share with others
• Concepts you have come up with to apply either for work or your personal life
• A timeline for research purposes
• Cause and effect - sharing of results
• Most importantly - a journal of progress for anything you want

The concept of having a blog has now grown and the software the bulk majority of us use for building one has evolved into an excellent content management system for an entire site instead of it's original intended purpose.

Now back to my friend. As I said, he has been consistent with daily updates regarding his progress with his new venture. Even if there is really nothing to report. I have to give him props for that because in this day and age, it is not easy to be that consistent with anything. Too many distractions.

But stop for a moment and think about what he's done or is trying to do here. He has set a higher standard for himself to do at least something every day to grow his new business and made himself accountable for reporting those actions on his blog. By doing this publicly, he has raised the bar 10 fold for himself because if he does nothing, then he will not have anything to post. Letting not only himself down, but his readers as well.

I may not have communicated that very well, but re-read that paragraph above and understand how powerful it is. What do YOU do to grow your business every day? Do you hold yourself accountable for your actions? When you buy a piece of software do you say "I'll get started on that tomorrow" or do you put it into use every day on a consistent basis? If you join a business opportunity, do you work it every day or do you get a great start and then move on to something else?

I have said this before and I will say it again. Being consistent at whatever you are doing is the key to success. If you are consistent with it and persist, even through the hard times, you WILL be successful. There is no other option.

That being said, I would really like to ask that person who questioned my friend how they felt his posts do not add value to his site. In all honesty, I have enjoyed following his progress and I wish him nothing but the best in his new venture. He may only be on Day 23 or 24 right now, but I can hardly wait to read about Day 365. As long as he maintains his focus and sticks to his plan, I have no doubt I'll be watching a great success story unfold over the coming months.

So Scott, best wishes to you and keep on keeping on my friend!

Every once in a while I like to check sites for broken or dead links - especially in the comments sections, but most importantly regarding sites I've linked to. I also like to test the crawlabitity (is that even a word? LOL) of a site just to be sure that search engines can follow everything smoothly and have the ability to index everything once they visit. Both are good things to check for when doing on-site SEO and I hope all of you know about it and are doing it.

The reason I'm in the market for new tools is that it appears the ones I used to use are no longer in existence. So if you know of any, please leave a comment or contact me via the contact page to send me an email. Thanks!

First off, STOP WASTING MY TIME!!!

Those of us in affiliate marketing, whether new or well seasoned, have our inboxes slammed daily with new offers, products, etc. I am always open to hearing about new innovative ideas, techniques and strategies. This is how those of us who earn incomes from affiliate marketing learn and grow. You have to embrace change and be ready to implement the things you hear about or you end up getting left behind.

That being said, I want to know exactly why you people feel the need to create mile long sales letters and videos that quite honestly, don't contain much information. Sure, there will be some suckers who might hang on every word, but I know I can speak for the majority when I tell you that if your product is really that good, then it shouldn't take you 15-30 minutes to attempt to pre-sell it. Seriously!

These techniques might have worked for you several years ago, but the internet has changed and the people looking at your offers have changed. You all know that "instant information" is the name of the game these days so why are you not using this to your advantage? The people you are marketing to no longer want to see the fluff and stuff you fill your sales letters and videos with.

Here is a general outline of what we want to see:

• The name of your product and a maybe a quick sub-headline of what it is
• If you include background information about yourself, condense the information down to 2-3 paragraphs - no more. Trust me, you can do this. No one wants to read a full 17" screen of information or watch 10 minutes of video only about yourself. If your product/software is as good as you are about to tell us, we don't need a ten year time line of your accomplishments/bragging rights. Seriously.
• Fill the need. Tell us what the product is, quickly list its features or benefits and briefly how it is better than what may be already out there.
• It's fine to include testimonials, but make sure they are from someone who has actually used the product. Someone you gave or sold a copy to and has actually used it. Otherwise, leave them out until a few months have passed. We already have your "proof".
• Tell us the price and give us an order button.

That's it. Keep it simple. Your customers and visitors are a lot more savvy than what you think. If you feel you have to keep filling your sales page or video with fluff in order to try and sell it, then my guess is that your product is no where near as good as you are trying to make us believe. Even if it is that good and you are making sales, it doesn't necessarily mean it is because of your extended pitch. 98% of the people I talk to scroll through the fluff and don't read it anyway. The majority of us will only read your bullet points and your description/proof of how it fills the need. We then scroll to the order button or click away from the page. Others who buy it have more than likely already been pre-sold on it and won't read your sales page at all.

Believe me, if your product is any good, word will get out and you will see sales like you never dreamed. The fluff, filler, etc. is NOT needed.

Which brings me to my second point - DON'T WASTE MY TIME INSIDE THE PRODUCT EITHER!

If we have spent our hard earned money with you, don't waste our time with fluff inside of the product. Thank us for purchasing and then tell us what we need to know to either use the product or implement the system. Give us all the how to's and how we can use it to fill our need. Nothing makes me more mad than to either buy an ebook or video series and see that the 100 page pdf could have been condensed into 40-50 pages or that I really only needed to watch 3 of the 10 videos because the first 7 were all about you. That or you were only able to take away one usable piece of information from each of the 10.

What prompted this post is the fact that I had an email in my inbox this morning from someone I used to respect about the release of his new product. You cannot get to the primary sales page without watching an 18 minute video where he actually reveals NOTHING about the system. (Well, if your a seasoned pro, you can figure out some of the system he's come up with) But the majority of the video talked about absolutely nothing. Then, once you've watched the video, you have to opt-in in order to even get to the sales page. Once you're there, all it does is rehash what was in the video which was basically.....nothing. He wanted to send me a review copy, give me time to implement the system and then give him a testimonial. I told him in no certain circumstances that unless he changed his selling process that there was no way I even wanted to look at it. I don't want my name associated with anything like that nor would I feel good about telling others about it. At this point, I don't care how good it might be.

The bottom line is keep it simple and get to the point. Gone are the days of the time wasters who spend hours pouring over sales letters, watching videos, etc. and you'll do nothing but make your customers angry if you have a lot of filler content on the inside. Tell us how your product fills our need, show us what it did for you and then get straight to the point once we've purchased it. If you can't do that, then maybe you shouldn't release it at all.

If you are an affiliate marketer who agrees with me here, please take a moment to Digg this, Stumble It, Tweet It, Sphinn It, or whatever social media you use and let's show these people we're serious! Then if you have a marketing blog yourself, go make a post about it as well. Send me a trackback, leave a comment or just contact me with your post and I'll come to your site and do the same. It's way past time for a fresh approach to sales and product launches.

What is true is that the program is not what it used to be. Gone are the days of earning $25 per new user and earning $10, $20, $50 or $100 plus in commissions on items. Just like everyone else, I truly miss the old program.

I know many of you are already asking this question - If there are more profitable programs, why would I want to include eBay? Especially with their new affiliate model?

And I will fire back with a question of my own - How many of you have made for Adsense sites?

Because honestly, when we get right down to it, that is pretty much what the eBay affiliate model has become. The only difference is that our visitor has to take action and buy what we are recommending. If we have done our job in pre-selling the item or attracting the customer who is ready to buy, then this really is not an issue.

Am I saying go out and build a site strictly for eBay? No, not unless eBay is pretty much the only place buyers can purchase the products. What I am saying is, don't completely set it to the side and potentially leave money on the table. You can still see some good success with the program if you place the products on your pages built to attract those who are ready to buy. I can't stress this enough, if you do it right, ebay will pay you on average anywhere from $.14-$.64 per click and some days I have hit as high as over $1.00 or more.

Here is what I am doing to see those numbers:
I now only build my sites using WordPress. The reason is ease of use and flexibility. I run them all as blogs and not just product sites. I use phpBay and phpZon to post products. I only list products on the pages or posts where I have targeted the buyer who is ready to make a purchase. Products do not appear in any other content, but if I reference a product in one of my articles then I usually make a link to the product page for internal linking purposes. When I do list products, I list both Amazon and eBay on the same page - and no more than 3 or 4 items from each. This gives the visitor a comparison and then they make the decision on where to go.

In a nutshell, that's it. The real key to it is only putting the products on the posts/pages where your visitor is likely to have their credit card in hand. These are the pages/posts that convert and ultimately give eBay what they want - in their terms "engaging the visitor" or "visitor value".

I will also say this, there is nothing wrong with adding products from Amazon or another program in your other posts/pages or articles. Since you're not getting paid per click, it just makes sense to do so if there is even a remote possibility of a sale. But when it comes to ePN, only put it on your highly targeted pages/posts. This helps your conversions and in turn, increases the amount you are paid per click.

Sure, it might be possible to earn a little more from Amazon, but if your product is cheaper on eBay, where are your visitors going to go? Let me give you a quick true story before I close. I have a site that I've had since the first days of BANS. It's went through all of the growing pains and is one of the ones that has been de-indexed by Google. It was a great earner (still is) and has always gotten a ton of traffic from Yahoo and MSN, which is why I kept it. Several months back I reworked it into a blog and did just what I described above. The site averages around 110 clicks per day. EPC for this campaign is $.24. I don't know about you, but I will not turn away an extra $26.40 per day. And this with traffic from Yahoo and MSN only. Just think what the possibilities could be if it were still in Google. Of course that figure is no where close to what the site used to earn, but it's still earning something and I'll take it.

All I am saying is don't throw it out the window just because the way we earn money money has changed. While it is substantially less than what we earned before, it is still possible to earn quite a bit of extra cash by integrating it on your site.

Like it or not, video is here to stay and gains more popularity with each day that passes. However, thousands of marketers have not even begun to utilize it when it comes to marketing their sites. There are many reasons for this and we'll talk about those as well as how this software can and does solve those problems.

The first reason many marketers haven't taken advantage of video in their site promotion is lack of knowledge. They ultimately want to, but do not know how or where to begin. Another is that they do not want to lay out a lot of money for expensive software or learn the required technical knowledge to run it. Many others are just not comfortable speaking into the microphone and some of us just don't like the sound of our own voice.

This software solves many of those problems. It is very easy to use without much of a learning curve. It's pretty straight forward and simple to use for those worried about technical skills. For those who are uncomfortable with speaking, this software is perfect as you do not have to do any talking. You simply choose a background, copy your articles into slides and set background music if you want to. Save the file and then begin uploading to your chosen video sites.

And for those worried about expensive costs, how does $17 sound?

Now for those who are more advanced and may be wondering why they would need something like this, let's address that for a minute. Because if you're not using video in your site promotion efforts, you are losing out on a ton of traffic and quality backlinks. And even if you are, this software will quickly and easily let you add even more videos to your channel.

I'm going to be conservative here so let's say you have a site with 20 articles on it. You can take those articles and very quickly make 20 videos out of them. It's as simple as cut and paste. Then upload them at a rate of one or two a week. You have the ability to do this for every article on your site.

Do you also write for eZineArticles or any other number of directories? Make videos for those articles as well. Do you have a ton of PLR content wasting away on your hard drive? Simply add your links and make videos for those, too. Add some social bookmarking to each of your videos and submit your RSS feed for your accounts to the RSS feed directories and you now have a whole new powerhouse of building traffic and backlinks for your sites. One more thing, I forgot to mention, you can add links to your websites right in to your videos.

These are just a few quick ideas and barely scratches the surface of what you could use this for, but are you beginning to see the power of what Instant Video Articles can do for you?

This software was just released yesterday and I have added it to my marketing arsenal. Once I test a few things, I will be creating a guide to help everyone who orders from me to get the most out of using it and will send it to you free of charge. Click on the box below to watch the short video to see the features or to order. Until next time......

Instant Video Articles

However, submitting the same exact article to all of the articles sites is going to do you way more harm than good. First of all, the most reputable directories hand check your article and must approve it before it will show up on their site. Your article must also pass a duplicate content check as well. If they find any other instance of your article or anything close to it anywhere on the web, your submission will not be approved. Second, search engines will place a heavy discount on those links if they are all linking from the exact same content. And yes, search engine bots are smart enough to figure this out.

It's a little different story if an individual webmaster decides to republish your content and give you the credit. Once again, the bots are smart enough to figure out whether the links are coming from directories or an individual website. The links will carry more weight coming from an individual site.

Proper article marketing requires creating a separate, unique article for each site. I know that writing and re-writing articles is a tedious, time consuming task. And it's one that most all of us hate. I know that I would sure love to have all the hours back that I've wasted on it, but it is necessary if you want your articles approved and gain those all important backlinks.

The good news is I have FINALLY found a true way to speed up this process. The Best Spinner has to be the most revolutionary article spinner I've ever come across. I've never seen one with features that will even come close to or compare with what this one can do. You can take your original article, spin it hundreds of times and it will actually give you a well-written, unique, easy to read article every time. All with just a few clicks.

Now before you flame me for this, I encourage you to go to the site, watch the video and see it in action. I don't really care whether you get it or not, just go watch the video and see all of the features! I've tried many different spinners in the past and not one of them can touch The Best Spinner. The ones I tried to use before all fell short which is why I've never recommended one. I consider this the best article spinner, bar none. In my opinion, the rest are useless.

If you do any article marketing at all, I would rate this as a top 5 must have tool. With this software, you can have it done in record time and be submitting the articles to your favorite places in less than the time it would take you to re-write the first version of your article.

Once you watch the video, just imagine what you can do with all of those PLR articles gathering dust on your hard drive.

On a more serious note, if some of you think I'm just throwing this at you for the sake of making a few sales, you'd be wrong. Those of you that know me know that I NEVER recommend anything I don't personally use myself. I only recommend the things that I use and that have helped me make running my business easier.

There is no cost or opt-in required to watch the video. I encourage you to see it. I can't wait for you to see how easy re-writing your articles can be. Click here to watch The Best Spinner video.

Now, is that an affiliate link and do I stand to earn a commission if you purchase? Yes. I feel affiliate links are fair on our own websites, especially you are being honest and were the one who brought  it to your readership. But you are welcome to just use the main site address and bypass the affiliate link. However, if you do decide to buy and purchase it through my link, Contact me here and send me a copy of your receipt. I am putting together an awesome bonus for those who do.

If you don't want to get it now or don't have the funds, that's ok, you can still see the video. But I would highly advise getting this somewhere down the line. Take care All and I'll talk to you soon!

I am writing this in response to several emails I have received in the last two weeks from a few wanting to know how to make instant profits. I'm sorry people, if you are looking to find some instant tactic for earning money, my blog is not where you need to be.

Sure, there are new products and methods launched every day that can possibly make you some bank in a very short period of time, but what you need to know is that it is not sustainable. In other words, ask yourself if what you are using will still work a year from now. I've been in this game for many years now and I can already tell you that it won't. It may make you a lot of money on the start, but as more and more people come on board with it, the less effective it becomes and your profits will go down. Way down. You might possibly then be left over starting from scratch -- and no one wants that.

I've said this before and I will say it again - your time and efforts are much better spent building for the long haul and not the "pie in the sky" instant gratification most products seem to promise these days. Choose your path wisely.

The road to riches does not have to be a long one. If you choose your niche(s) well and can devote anywhere from 1-4 hours a day, you can realistically replace your current income in 6 months to a year. However, you have to be willing to do the work. There is no "Easy" button. If there was such a thing, we'd all be retired and meeting up for drinks in the Bahamas. Lol.

We all have to start somewhere and there is a TON of advice on where to begin spread out all over the web. The best advice I can give you is to pick something, master it and then move on to the next. Very soon, you will have a broad skill set that you can apply to everything else you do in the future. This is the point when you become powerful and will be successful, no matter what you build.

Here are the basic steps that I go by when I want to get into a new niche and is the path that has proven most successful for me:

1. Research the niche
2. If potentially profitable, then go test the niche on a few Web 2.0 properties such as Squidoo, HubPages, EzineArticles, Blogger.com, WordPress.com, UsFreeAds, etc. I then build a few backlinks to each of these pages and let it set for a week or two. What I am looking for here is the amount of traffic these pages get.
3. If the traffic from the above efforts is good for the niche and results in a few sales, then I feel comfortable enough to build a stand alone site for it.
4. Wash, rinse, repeat.

I'll talk more later about each step and possibly even show some examples, but this is the general principle I have used to become successful. It is not rocket science and it can work for you too, but again, you have to be willing to sit down and do it.

For now, I have to get back to work. I'll speak to you all soon!